Shotwell 0.3.0

New version of Shotwell, a Picasa/iPhoto like photo management application, is out.

New version of Shotwell, a Picasa/iPhoto like photo management application, is out.

Changes:

autoadjustment of colors;

shadows adjustment;

hierarchy of events in sidebar;

crop ratio presets;

basic metadata display;

background readahead for full size images;

direct editing (open a file not from database and change it);

UI localization is possible now.

The app is different from F-Spot, IntiPinku and the like by neither destructively changing images nor creating physical versions.

Shotwell is part of a set of applications for GNOME using Vala (even though Win builds are planned) created by a start-up called Yorba. Other apps are: Fillmore (multitrack audio editor) and Lombard (non-linear video editor).